how'd that work out for the rest of IP owners that had their stuff used as training data for use in model creation?
was the material they trained on produced in-house?
I know some people want it to be a legal violation, but it’s not.
Also these are audio models, if you hadn’t noticed. The training sets for this type of work is very different than the corpus of scraped GitHub repos.
It will take years for the hundreds of jurisdictions in the world to write new laws and (in common law countries) establish new precedent.
Philosophical questions don't make sense if you use them to counter argue about something which is a legal issue.
Not only did you pull a whataboutism but the whataboutism isn't even relevant to the topic of conversation lol.
Well, the laws that society decide what is legal in terms of buying and selling.
People, somewhat unfortunately, are starting to act as if "licenses" are some kind of natural, pre-existing part of the world.
The fact that they exist at all is because we invented them, and we can easily uninvent them.
You made up a position to argue against.
A 100K free device license is a generous gift to small companies. Past 100K, it’s more than fair to ask that companies contribute. That’s a significant operation at that point and the model has obviously provided value.
If the model doesn’t provide any value to a >100K device company then they should train their own or not use it.
I could see how people unfamiliar with per-device or per-unit licensing fees would be confused, but this is a common business model. Scaling payments with the customer’s business success is one of the more fair ways to align vendor and customer while also providing a nice way to give freely to smaller businesses like this.
It’s a good thing. It’s silly that a company giving away a license for 100K devices, which covers small and medium hardware operations, is being criticized for this of all things.